From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44480680.5020409@village.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:09:04 -0400 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails References: <3e1162e60604181454l35bd6917v8a6169c6befd9baa@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60604190725u4d8a123an8fb3ae1c9a383574@mail.gmail.com> <444649C3.8040401@lanl.gov> <44469546.1000500@village.com> <44479D04.5040706@lanl.gov> <6e35c0620604200850w2cd27446y873df69308755e24@mail.gmail.com> <4447FB38.6080601@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <4447FB38.6080601@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 422485da-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ronald G Minnich wrote: > EFI requires a FAT-12 formatted FLASH on your mainboard. Licensed IP=20 > from M$.=20 Can you point us (me) to info about the licensed IP besides PE/COFF? > need I say more? Sure. Say something about getting LinuxBIOS, which AMD64 motherboards=20 support it, availability on laptops, etc. The world wants to know about=20 routes around proprietary walls. --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people co= llectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the = same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a = bit obscure.=20 P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)